枕詞
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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枕 | 詞 |
まくら Grade: S |
ことば Grade: 6 |
kun'yomi |
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compound of 枕 (makura, “pillow”) + 詞 (kotoba, “word”). The pillow meaning is in reference to the way that makura kotoba in poetry are used as introductions to something else.
Pronunciation
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Noun
枕詞 • (makura kotoba)
- (poetry) an epithet, specifically a poetic device where a certain introductory phrase is commonly used to allude to something else, traditionally used in 和歌 (waka, “traditional Japanese poetry”)
- Over time, certain makura kotoba may become full metonyms to replace the term they originally only alluded to, such as the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese phrase 庭つ鳥 (niwa tsu tori) or "garden bird" replacing the older term 鶏 (kake) to mean "chicken", as in the modern Japanese term 鶏 (niwatori). An example of such a makura kotoba:
- 711–712, Kojiki, poem 2:
- [...] 爾波都登理 迦祁波那久 [...] [Man'yōgana]
- [...] 庭つ鳥 鶏は鳴く [...] [Modern spelling]
- ...niwa tsu tori, kake wa naku...
- ...the garden bird, the chicken clucks...
- Over time, certain makura kotoba may become full metonyms to replace the term they originally only alluded to, such as the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese phrase 庭つ鳥 (niwa tsu tori) or "garden bird" replacing the older term 鶏 (kake) to mean "chicken", as in the modern Japanese term 鶏 (niwatori). An example of such a makura kotoba:
- (by extension) introductory words
- (literal) a pillow talk
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- Japanese terms spelled with 枕 read as まくら
- Japanese terms spelled with 詞 read as ことば
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese lemmas
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- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
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